From: Vincent Gabriel Franco <vincent-franco@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T12:50:29+09:00
Subject: newbie question

I am very new to programming "infant new"
and I have a question about a return I am scratching my head over in a 
simple program I am writing

here is my code... shouldn't the return of my method be "true" after 
pressing enter and thus end the loop?

while (quit == false)
    def check_if_blank input
        if(input == '')
            quit = true
        else   
            quit = false
        end
        quit
    end
    puts 'Enter a number'
    first = gets.chomp
    quit = check_if_blank first
    first_number.push first.to_i
   
    puts 'good..'
    puts 'now enter a number to multiply the first number by'
   
    second = gets.chomp
    quit = check_if_blank second
    second_number.push  second.to_i
    answer.push first_number[(first_number.length) -1] * 
second_number[(second_number.length) -1]
   
    puts first_number[(first_number.length) -1].to_s + ' * ' + 
second_number[(second_number.length) -1].to_s + ' = ' + 
answer[(answer.length) -1].to_s
    if(first_number.length == 5)
        quit = true
    end   
end